Rebuilding Anatolia After the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240-1330

ISBN-13: 9780367600082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Patricia Blessing

Opis

Beginning with the Mongol conquest of Anatolia in 1243, and ending with the demise of the Ilkhanid Empire in the 1330s, this book considers how the integration of Anatolia into the Mongol world system transformed architecture and patronage in this frontier region. Blessing considers the monuments built during this period alongside written sources i

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: reframing the lands of Rum; A capital without royal patronage: Konya (1240-1280); A capital of learning: three madrasas in Sivas (1271-1272); On the Ilkhanid frontier: Erzurum (1280-1320); Small cities in a global moment: Tokat, Amasya, Ankara (1280-1330); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Patricia Blessing is a staff member at the Stanford Humanities Center and Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, USA.